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Employee Turnover – It’s Like Throwing Money Down The Drain!
The cost of employee turnover is significant and cannot be ignored. Management goes ballistic when inventory is lost or materials are wasted. But when it comes to employees, bad hires and poor performance are tolerated and even excused as if the voluntary or...
An Expert’s 3 Tips for Selecting the Right Leadership Test
Behavioral interviews and leadership assessments are effective ways to expose potential blind spots, or as I tell clients – everyone has an Achilles Heel. Leadership assessment tests help identify the Achilles Heel before you hire or promote? Here are three tips to...
Companies Investing Leadership Training in Wrong Skills
Currently it appears companies are dumping more training and development dollars in the current strength areas of many leaders. Their strengths may become stronger but those competencies are becoming less important than other required skills. More significantly,...
62 Percent of Frontline Leaders Unprepared – Can Leadership Tests Help?
How can organizations get a good picture of the individuals capable of leading others? Most decisions about frontline leadership promotion (more than 80 percent) are based on manager recommendations. According to DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2011, only one in...
3 Reasons Why Management Competency Models Fail
Big corporations have been talking seriously about management competencies for at least the past two decades. Today even the smallest of small businesses have joined the discussion. Many organizations are dedicating time and resources into creating a leadership and...
What Does It Take To Hire Effective Leaders?
What does it take to hire effective leaders - or any new employee for that matter? Managers tend to be a bit myopic when filling front line manager positions. Senior management and HR seem to agree. In the DDI Finding the First Rung study, only 31 percent of HR...
50 Percent of First TIme Leaders Fail; Management Tests Help Close The Gap
Success Performance Solutions Close Leadership Skill Deficit with Management Testing (via SBWire) Lancaster, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/25/2013 -- Google “management test” and in a split second over 1.2 billion results appear. People might think with the abundance of...
Frontline Leaders Fail at Alarming Rate; Poor Communication to Blame
Companies are experiencing a critical leadership skills gap. It is so serious that according to one recent study, only 18 percent of HR professionals rate their leadership bench strength as strong or very strong. Not much better (19 percent) was their confidence in...
Six Interview Questions to Ask Potential Retail Store Managers
Hiring a new store manager? Here are some six interview questions to consider asking them. Ira S Wolfe, President of Success Performance Solutions, was one of the hiring experts used in the article to suggest one question that pet store owners and operators should...
Tips for Recruiting New Employees
This is a great time of year to find new employees. Fresh graduates are on the prowl for new opportunities. Use these tips to make sure your company is what they find in their job search!
